And You Thought Travel Was Bad Before
Well, hopefully everyone who reads this is up on current events/news. I woke up this moring to a frustrated man who was explaining to me, as I read my news feeds, exactly what they had said on the news regarding flights and airports. The foiled terrorist plots from London have just made our travel here much worse. I am not complaining about what they are trying to do for our safety - but come on. Why don't they just go to the source and handle this? I am proud to be an American, I am happy that they are trying to keep us safe, but I think that there are better ways to do it. All of our airports are turning out to be just like the airports in "those" countries.
A trip to San Francisco, before today, was 14 hours door to door for us. 14 hours. An hour allowed for security has now turned into 2 - perhaps longer. All carryons are being hand checked, especially if not neat. NOW, we can't carry on any lugguge - well that is if we want to be clean and smell nice. NO MORE liquids of ANY kind allowed on carry ons. So our 14 hour trip, just turned into a 16 hour trip - AT LEAST. You can check your luggage, which means that you have to have carry ons and checked luggage if you need to take laptops when you travel. Can you imagine what the immediate loss of checked luggage is going to be? We have 3 trips that require flights both halfway across country and across country in the next month and a half. This just made it much more difficult. Sure, you can take nothing with you, buy it all there and then leave it. But how about your colognes, perfumes, etc? Things that aren't cheap. Not to mention finding a decent drug store anywhere near where you stay in a downtown area, isn't the easiest thing to do either. You would then be forced to buy things from the gift shop, or Zoom machines that they have in the hotels now. Do you think they are stocked up and prepared for this scenario? I don't think so. I truly feel sorry for the men and women that have to travel out of the country for business right now. They have it much worse than us.
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K.P.
A trip to San Francisco, before today, was 14 hours door to door for us. 14 hours. An hour allowed for security has now turned into 2 - perhaps longer. All carryons are being hand checked, especially if not neat. NOW, we can't carry on any lugguge - well that is if we want to be clean and smell nice. NO MORE liquids of ANY kind allowed on carry ons. So our 14 hour trip, just turned into a 16 hour trip - AT LEAST. You can check your luggage, which means that you have to have carry ons and checked luggage if you need to take laptops when you travel. Can you imagine what the immediate loss of checked luggage is going to be? We have 3 trips that require flights both halfway across country and across country in the next month and a half. This just made it much more difficult. Sure, you can take nothing with you, buy it all there and then leave it. But how about your colognes, perfumes, etc? Things that aren't cheap. Not to mention finding a decent drug store anywhere near where you stay in a downtown area, isn't the easiest thing to do either. You would then be forced to buy things from the gift shop, or Zoom machines that they have in the hotels now. Do you think they are stocked up and prepared for this scenario? I don't think so. I truly feel sorry for the men and women that have to travel out of the country for business right now. They have it much worse than us.
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K.P.
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